Prime Minister and the Cabinet Elephant - with Vince cable, Nick Clegg, George Osborne, Michael Gove, Theresa May, Philip Hammond and Eric Pickles. All seemingly oblivious to the UK real estate problem. There is far too little housing and far too many people wanting housing. creating huge demand and massive property price rises This in turn fuels inflation and rents become unaffordable and people's standard of living inevitably falls. The country desperately needs more new housing but will the government do anything to reverse this and so possibly lowering the demand and so the rate of price rise? Property industry, for Estates Gazette